Ch ritie
100 out on
Bingo g mblin
Memphi marche
on with Dr. King
� M rtin Luther .
Kmg Jr. tepped out on a balcony
at the Lonaine �l April 4, 1968
in Memphis and fatally rut
Twenty-five la, the city of
M mphis i cdebrating Dr. King'
life and Work with a weekeod of
activiti commemornting the an
ni vetSal)' .
Tre event is called March On
and i ing rdinatexl the
. ml Ovil Righ ,.
Activities inchx1 a confieraaulft
the future 0 the civil righ� move
rrtent, a mock rornic ummit in
which todents will represent Afri
can na . <fu ing ecorornic
q tiers and a d�1ay by the
Smithsonian titu. Admission
to this ev nt is free. For rmre infor
mation call the rmseum � (rol)
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Earlene Tolliver
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I TJWM'Chl an Cuizen is avail
I nh/, It lin through Ethnic
I J .�'" W ate h and to ub crib rs of
I . f eud Data ntral.
•
., I well awar of
the King trial and what occurred af
terward:' Black aid. "I think it
makes it much mor difficult for a on him.
z
&J.L..oOno.� .... community here
ha followed the Lozano ca e
10 ly,andit 0 t th h rtofthe
problem we have with police here,"
h aid.
While many city official have
po en out agai t having the trial .
here, not everyone i convinced 0
the potential for violence.
'c If it to be held here, this is a
well-educated, well-reasoned com
munity and I'm ure they can render
a fair verdict," y outgoing Mayor
Bob Hightower.
"I know it' go d to prepare for
the worst, but ther won't be a
worst," iet I aac Groene, tudent -
body vice p ident at historically
Bla k Florida A&M University.
L EF., noted for its
evergreen live oaks and its stately
government buildi ngs, is unaccus
tomed to the larg -scale turmoil sur
rounding the Lozano case. But that
do n't mean it i unprepared.
When the city was first discussed
as a site of the trial last year, Police
Chief Mel Tucker made sure every
one of his 300 officers was equipped
with riot gear, including collap ible
batons pepper gas and gas mask
shields. He tepped up training aoo
cans hav alway had to b igilant formed a community relations eoun
to overcome lavery, Jim Crow, g- cil.
regatio n, b ni n neglect and continu- "A police chief would be an ab-
i ng raci m the Florida-born olute fool not to have a plan in
representative urged Black-owned place:' h aid at the time. "I'm not
. t" p ,OQ�ed��r. 0 be m t t cro or
<!l to 0 t
cotnmitments to Afri
Ha ting ·urge Black
pre s to use its power
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court overturned the
1, rutin the juro had
d by their fear of more _
M·ch
agel'S and cannot be owners and not
be contractors and not be busi -
men."
Sharptoa' comments appeared
to be Indirectcontrast to too of the
Rev. Je e Jackson, who during a
meetingFridaywithtwob eballex
ecutives tressed negotiation over
confrontation.
Jackson aid the hortage of mi
norities in sports must be addressed,
particularly ince African-Ameri
cans make up uch a large percent-
. age of both athlet es and fa who
watch them perform.
In addition to National League
president Bill White, two of 11 de
partment heads in the cornmis- , ./
stoner's office are minorities. But t
clubs have lagged, and just 17
cent of fro -office employ
minorities.
By LARRY STILL
Sp.cI.1 to the AI/chlg.n Cit/an
i ing like a "Pboeni from th
ashes", newly elect d Rep. Alcee L.
, ) thanked
am Aml������.ru�
rs for helpi ng to tore him to
political leadership, but urged the
"Black Press" to maker greater ef
forts in using th ir influen for th
benefit of the many communiti
they rve.
Hastings add ed the annual
mid-winter convention of th 2 -
mernb r National ew p per Pub-
lishers Ass iation P A
"I would not have b n cle ted to
Congress without your upport,"
Hastings aid in Ii ling publications
which backed his candidacy.
Hastings explained that he was
also elected econd vice-chairman of
the 39-member Congres ional Bla k
Caucus because ,uch CBC leaders as
Reps. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-.
Chair"), Craig Washington (D-TX)
and Charle Rangel (D-NYC)
"wanted to end a me age to the
white media 'that we are unit d'",
despite the a t that orne CBC mem
bers had voted to remove him from
the Federal bench in impe chment
proceedings in a previous ion of
Congr
The CBC members als
strated unity in the openin ion
organizational meetin to block
congressional leadership effort to
eliminate the subcommittee on Af
rica from th full Foreign Affairs
Committee. Some members vote for
racist leadership to get ertain com-
mittee ignment , H ti n aid
and added, .. orne of th people
wanted to take Egypt out f rica
and put it in Europe ... "
o ormon
t t by 1 te pril. e y
Richard Ieyoub ked t 5th U.S. Cir
delay implementation hile tbe
through th entire ap process.
Witbout a delay, Loui iana' resource would be "irrev ly 10 t"
if the current y tern di mantled only to be rei tated if the tate wins
on , Ieyoub aid.
Ieyoub 'd earlier that he felt confidant that the 5th Circuit would
grant a my.
"YOU powerful and there
is no question about your power"
Hastin told th NPA members
and their ociates. "But, IS there a
connectedness which allow you to
collectively thrust your power as a
group or as an as ociation?
"Are you mdividual with respec
tive (publi hing) house which do not
have tructures which allow all Afri
can Americans to benefit fr m the
information you provide? Informa
tion i power and the more informa
tion you have, the more power you
have .. ,
"We all know that th m [ority
media dominat the tabli hm nt"
Hasting continued. Em h izing
that Bla k pll II hers must borne
dominant in their own ommuruti
like the publi. he who helped elect
three African American from he
tate 0 Florida t C ngres [or the
first time .. , QY takin an tiv x;ole,'"
th tivi t lawmaker declared"
"Some fy u don't d a damn thin "
about cekin to improv conditi ns
in their reas,
Pointing out that African Am ri-
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Sharpton threaten to
disrupt big league game
CJUCAGO (AP) - The Rev. AI
Sharpton on Saturday threatened to
disrupt major league b eball games
thi year ,through acts of civil disobe
dience if owners don't hire more mi
norities in management positions.
During a weekly meeting of Op
eration PUSH, Sharpton urged all
Blacks to join in if no agreement is
reached by opening day.
"We are going to deal with the
fact that sports in this country (have)
become the institutionalized apart
heid pastime of the world," he aid.
"Blacks are paid to bounce balls
while white (owners) sits in the
tands and count the money after we
have entertained them. We cannot
allow our children to grow up feeling
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"
"I want you to follow my lead,
am oin to give him ei ht
weeks ... ju t like I criticized George
Bush and Ronald Reagan-and if he
do n't ee that a Democratic gov
ernment i restored in Haiti. I will e
all over him ... "
Hastings aid he is urging' the
CBC "to take its show on th road"
by c nducting th celebrated, annual
C ngn ional Lc i lativc Week-
nds in various cities out ide Wa!. h
ington, DC.
He also called for tabli tun nt
of an effe tive CBC pr ffice to
provide more information a ut wha
CBC members and committee are
doing for th ir local communities.
The c ngres man al 0 urged the
publi hers to be more vigilant about
their community outreach and get
tin adverti ing and circulation. "If
Di ney i n't adv' rti ing in your pa
pers, we ought t et...th hell out of
here," h concluded,
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